14 Creating your own boot and installation media
This chapter explains how to create custom
Installation media can be a tape or DVD containing:
•A software depot
•A golden or recovery archive, plus a software depot
NOTE: It is possible to create a bootable USB flash drive that works with Integrity systems. See the
All installation media are bootable. To create installation media, you need a basic knowledge of
Why use custom boot and installation media?
You might want to build boot or custom installation media if:
•You have to recover systems that cannot boot from a recovery tape or the network, so boot media is required for the
•You have a large number of systems that are basically identical, and the networking does not allow easy or fast access to an
•You want a disaster recovery image of a system. For
Building PA-RISC boot and installation tape
This section describes building a tape for just booting, or for boot and installation on
IMPORTANT: The media and data format (density and compression) of the installation tape you create must be compatible with the tape devices of client systems on which it will be read. You must consider writing the tape using a device special file (DSF) that selects the most compatible data format settings.
Possible tape contents
A
•Just a LIF volume.
•A LIF volume followed by one or more archives (A1, A2, A3, ...).
•A LIF volume followed by an optional archive (A1, or Empty), a serial depot (D), and zero or more additional archives (A2, ...).
By far, the most common configuration is a LIF volume followed by one archive. The archive can be a golden archive or a recovery archive depending on the purpose of the media.
The
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